as the u.s. election campaign answers the final strain was the two rival still neck inapt we'll look at how the race is increasingly resound wing a reality show where other than a political face off. over a thousands rally for greater autonomy for levy as may well as the country is still torn by conflict over here or since the western backed revolution. if you went looking into what is branded a shocking video which it suspects could be evidence of a war crime committed by the syrian rebels. it watching r.t. live from moscow with marina joshie now there are just four days left before the

u.s. presidential election but even on the final stretch barack obama and mitt romney remain effectively tied with neither debates nor a devastating hurricane giving either candidate a tangible advantage questions are mounting what the most expensive campaign in the country's history has really achieved and there was a growing feeling it was more about impressing the viewer than talking real politics as art is necessary to work in and now explains sometimes fire is the way to play the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget a tax this president's language we've all agreed that families are off limits. dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level

of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out eliminating contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you call those parties and then they finally in the grand did you have two survivors to go head to head and they and yes the big just the big prize the big prize for years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production

a huge crew and big box run the game if they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know there's a list of too many for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop all the things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debates the first us presidential debate of two thousand well had an audience of the million viewers that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. in about track record about x. . you're in yet most of the coverage. i see icons you sporting a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's

feelings since obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on and. the curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to team and remains king and politics not much more than a circus and if there's a trip into. new york now when a presidential race bears all the signs of a stage show there are legitimate concerns about how committed the candidates are to making their campaign statements areality u.s. national security expert gareth for or shared his views on which election promises are likely to remain nothing more than part of a t.v. performance the issues of u.s.

national security policy and the military i'm sorry to say that i don't believe. obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to ans us involvement in the war in afghanistan the fact is the obama administration has made the decision that there will be a residual force of at least ten thousand for an indefinite period of time i think the closest romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise. is perhaps the idea that they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not made with much conviction in the campaign in the last presidential debate romney was really more saying me too to president obama's policy toward iran. both candidates had their own ways of dealing with the aftermath

of hurricane sandy in tampa to break the pre-vote deadlock with campaigning now fully back on track our resident doer glory harvest has been finding out who came through with the best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere the beach was industry do you think the government has handled the storm well you know how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is down there and no i think they're just really slow to respond to the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to

have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday is that no than. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be going. to be. able to pull their lives together yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster then hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this hurricane and the election behind us.

and we'll of course continue our coverage of the u.s. elections looking at the race from different perspectives plus our team is hosting of very special event this coming monday as we are explicitly bringing you the final round of the third party candidates debate live from our washington studios. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power powerless. what if america changes. was election night monday november fifth on our team. to libya now where more than a sow's and people took to the streets of benghazi the cradle of the uprising calling for greater autonomy of the oil rich region protesters complain the new leadership has deprived the city of its fair share of political and economic power let's get more from our a middle east correspondent now paula slowly. so paula what exactly did the

protesters and benghazi demand. well more than a thousand protesters have taken to the streets of the eastern libyan city of benghazi they complain that they feeling marginalized by the government of tripoli now this comes just a little more than a years since the revolution that ousted the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi and what we witnessing is more and more protests of this kind tearing the country apart people who say they are not being represented in this new regime the irony is that it was. their. son. in to the role of and so what we're not hearing from people there is that they'd feel deprived but politically and economically by the new power regime they also say that they were better off before the revolution and they want to see the whole eastern part of the country now become autonomous with bengazi as the capital this is an art not a new cold we witnessed tribal leaders coming together earlier this year and

putting forward the same proposition what they really want is to manage their own affairs and have a larger share of resources particularly when it comes to the massive oil reserves in the east and concert the country so a lot of anger a lot of frustration and certainly people saying that it looks as if the country is being torn apart by the various groups inside. all right paul thanks very much indeed for this our correspondent paula sleazier live from tel aviv. now the un is examining a video which it says could be evidence of a war crime committed by the syrian rebels the newly released online food is purportedly shows opposition fire terrorists are only executing capture at government troops tan soldiers who are no longer believed to be com the tents are apparently shown the paper and wind up on the ground we want to show you the next the starboard scene but the man wore them repeatedly shot with automatic rifles

investigative journalist james corbat says it's a rare case that the tactics of the opposition forces have come under international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous documents coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course

and it has the hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the force and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in core the include any enforcement language which is a political long starter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of an. type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down is part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they're content to watch these atrocities and in these murders and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington. and iran a recent down public rallies has failed to deter protesters from taking to the

streets of several towns on friday there are reports of police brutality towards the anti-government demonstrators and arrests of those documenting the attacks now this comes amid a judicial crackdown with yet another activist sentenced to six months in jail for allegedly insulting the king on twitter call goes out for a lecture at the university of bahrain says it's too late for international condemnation to improve the situation in the gulf country to do also more for voicing their opinion. freedom of expression violated any standard of democracy around the world there is no improvement. that the regime is learning to play the world video of you know they claim they support human rights they claim that instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes are just rosy in borrowing meanwhile they could do neither

grow down they continue the torture they continue to do and they continue to kill millions in bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarter of the population of bahrain or out of the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty you mostly they most think. there will be no social be in bahrain if the situation will continue to get more chaotic. watching r t still had for you this hour shocking you to a healthier lifestyle or a deal one radical approach to turning people off junk food with the help of a deadly diseases now this story is coming up after a short break. horses

and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet whoa whoa he but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean scream. gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the ideas the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can say proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip or gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponent's army of photoshop pursuit of hundreds of copper fellas is

drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet means but that's just my opinion. more news today boylan says once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day . of the six america votes for its next president. to take the wheel as the u.s. drives into the field to. get the news the mainstream missives with up close

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around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow russia's premier the retrain advantage says members of the car virtual posi riot feminist group should not have been given jail sentences for the or stoned in moscow's main cathedral but at the same time an event also said they are morals have a lot to be desired. ocean. these are people in your very unpleasant to me both on the outside and could and they fill me with extreme negative emotions i suppose so much so that i don't like talking about them more and more but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually

enough. three members of the pussy riot band were found guilty of holding as motivated by religious hatred after performing their so-called punk prayer in moscow's christ the savior cathedral they were sentenced a two year jail term spot after an appeal hearing one of them was released on probation the woman insist they are stunt was a political one aimed against the authorities in the case has caused outrage among the religious community and splits the russian public. now more news for you on why the u.k. is fine to jad served roaring around the skies of the persian gulf rumors are spreading fast that london may deploy its jets and there are growing tensions between israel and iran over to iran's nuclear program the war in that our website our tito. plus a long way home online with god the story of eleven women who've been held captive in a supermarket. now

as doctors around the globe sound the alarm against a rising obesity and its dire health consequences medics and canada have come up with a graphic idea of how to warrant against the risks but one man's meat is another man's poison as they say and the proposal is fast becoming a hot potato already some bargain explains. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with a growing epidemic of obesity the entire medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporary's book and called for graphic labeling

on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those who make or enjoy eating but targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food categories carrying bacco to every day and beverage items nonsense smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in healthy ways that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warnings on i can absolutely

part of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply be ignored. any single cigarette smoker you know they pick up their cigarettes. they're obliged to label it i don't think that stuff. the body the photos are engineer today in the private lab the borders of foods are engineering today in many cases to be addictive to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law to change that kind of a who can't and you're not going to have any solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food

especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. now coming up in just a few minutes here in our take capital account with lauren lesser. in this remote siberians in which people still seem discerns which russians sank in the middle ages and they cherish the nation practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers he resigned the area are a conservative community they're known as the simi skia a word which refers to family. the other way i believe there yet again i feel

that. i now am i first joined by. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. yet. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to the is it her grandmother. ok ok.

i didn't ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my background how my sources play . and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought ninety's and sisters to this remote and east of buying call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introducing washing the sixteen hundreds they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals deal believers still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this fall the city says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what ninety's doing as a group to build believe a woman must never show her naked legs and because this thing started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big cities this

year is the all believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their life to agriculture but it's not now sorry to leave it inside israel has to remember that and try to think you know you know your plans to continue her studies abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture. ok. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday november second two thousand and twelve jobs numbers for october so the unemployment rate inching up a tenth of a percent to seven point nine percent but that's not because more people entered

the labor force which may be a good sign and payrolls climbed more than forecast so are we seeing incremental him. ments on the labor front houses dana is it given all the stimulus measures in place since two thousand and eight and what do wages indicate about an economic recovery or lack thereof we'll talk about it and today the buzz is the labor department's report yesterday it was the private a.d.p. jobs report reportedly showing companies expanding payrolls the most in eight months now these numbers get so much buzz when they come out less so when revisions are later released what can we learn from a.d.p.s revisionist history that could temper our expectations and from superstorm sandy's price gouging to catastrophe bonds to why you would citizens don't vote for a third party candidate you wrote as will respond to you and your feedback let's get to today's capital account.

all right so the jobs report out today shows one hundred seventy one thousand jobs were added last month look at nonfarm payrolls beating median analyst expectations of one hundred twenty five thousand according to bloomberg and more than that one hundred forty eight thousand added in september which by the way was revised up now this is all according to the labor department the numbers come out every month the headline unemployment rate number went up a notch but that's because more people entered the workforce five hundred seventy eight thousand more edging the labor force participation rate up to sixty three point eight percent now this is a number we've seen declined steadily since two thousand and eight but it's been going the other direction the last few months here's where we are in context the

economy has added private sector jobs bit by bit for thirty two consecutive months amounting to one hundred eleven point seven million but when you look at the number of people employed since the day barack obama took office let's use that as a gauge as we are ahead of elections next week that number is pretty much the same one hundred thirty three point six million in january of two thousand and nine versus one hundred thirty three point eight million as of last month and when you look at the increase in wages which have not been keeping up with inflation according to the b.l.s. does this tell us a different story in terms of a u.s. economic recovery or a lack there well might shed lock investment advisor for cit because that capital and author of mischa's global economic trend analysis is here to talk about it all he crunches the numbers every month and manages to find so much more than we hear about in the mainstream media so mike shadow.